Prayerwalking
Praying On Site With Insight!

Purpose:

  • Worship: Recognizing and exalting God where He is not known or praised.
  • Warfare: People and areas untouched by the gospel have remained that way because the enemy has held them captive (2 Cor. 4:4). We are not picking fist-fights with the enemy, but rather asking God to contend with the evil.
  • Welcome: Prayer teams help usher in the healing and restoring work of Christ's kingdom advance.

Purpose for us in the church neighborhood:

  • Bring worship, warfare, and welcome to our neighborhood as an extension of our church family.

Steps to basic prayerwalking:

  • Praise, prayer, scripture reading to clear the mind and set the tone of engaging in God's work.
  • Partner with each other to agree in prayer (2 or 3 are gathered...).
  • Walk and pray:
    • a. With open eyes for insight -- responsive, researched, and revealed insights.
    • b. Out loud -- so your group can hear and agree with you.
    • c. With Jesus! Talk with him about what you see and feel. Be sensitive to his guidance.
    • d. Sometimes in silence -- listening is half the conversation.
    • e. Reinforcing and multiplying each other's prayers -- building on not always changing the "topic."
    • f. With scripture -- blessing, requests, etc. God's way. For example, from Col. 1:9 (see back) you could ask God to fill those you see with "the full knowledge of his will" in their lives.
    • g. With relevance -- pray for what you see as you walk.
    • h. Bigger than yourself! Leave the list of burdens at home and go out on a mission for God.
  • Report: re-assemble to report prayers, insights, answers, and God's goodness!

But what do we pray?

  • Ask God to reveal the things that are on His heart.
  • Ask God to pour out his blessings on individuals, families, and households that you pass by.
  • Proclaim Christ as the answer to the neighborhood problems.
  • Pray for any people in positions of leadership that come to mind as you walk.
  • Declare Christ's truth in a place filled with falsehood.
  • Praise God that it is his desire for the people you see to know him.
  • Pronounce blessing in the name of Jesus on the people and places you see.

Use the following scriptures to guide your prayers:

Col. 1:9-14 "For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins."

Eph. 1:16-21 "I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come."

1 Tim 2:1-6 "I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone-- for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all men--the testimony given in its proper time."

Psalm 108:1-6 "My heart is steadfast, O God; I will sing and make music with all my soul. Awake, harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn. I will praise you, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing of you among the peoples. For great is your love, higher than the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies. Be exalted, O God, above the heavens, and let your glory be over all the earth. Save us and help us with your right hand, that those you love may be delivered."

Psalm 25:4-11 "Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. Remember, O LORD, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old. Remember not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you are good, O LORD. Good and upright is the LORD; therefore he instructs sinners in his ways. He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them hi s way. All the ways of the LORD are loving and faithful for those who keep the demands of his covenant. For the sake of your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, though it is great."

Jer. 29:11-14a "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you," declares the LORD.

(All verses from NIV version.)